EAdIElection Administration Index

§ 16¹ of the Central Election Commission Law subjects the CEC chairperson, deputy and secretary to the law On Prevention of Conflict of Interest in Activities of Public Officials (public-official interest declarations); ordinary election-commission members, however, are expressly excluded from public-official status (§ 6 Election Commissions Law).

“shall be determined in the law On Prevention of Conflict of Interest in Activities of Public Officials.”

§ 54 of the Saeima Election Law codifies judicial review of election decisions — applications go to the Regional Administrative Court or the Supreme Court Senate, examined at first instance by a three-judge panel within seven days (30 for seat redistribution); CPCB campaign-finance decisions are appealable to the District Administrative Court (§ 29 Pre-election Campaign Law).

“the application shall be submitted to the Regional Administrative Court”

Latvia's election commissions are established by statute — § 1 of the Election Commissions Law creates the city/municipality commissions and the Central Election Commission Law constitutes the CEC; the Constitution does not establish the election administration. Level 1: statutory grounding.

“each city and municipality shall establish from its voters respectively the city election commission or municipality election commission”

§ 2 of the Central Election Commission Law spreads appointment across branches — the Saeima elects the chairperson and seven members, and the Supreme Court elects one member from among its judges; no single branch controls the composition.

“shall be elected by the Saeima, whereas one member shall be elected from among judges - by the Supreme Court during its Plenary Session.”

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: FTS surfaced constitutional judicial-tenure and campaign-accounting provisions; the surfaced sections do not establish election-commissioner term protection (CEC member terms and local-commission recall grounds sit elsewhere in the Central Election Commission Law and § 11 of the Election Commissions Law).

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: FTS surfaced vote-counting observer provisions; Latvia codifies no political-balance requirement for election-commission composition — Central Election Commission members are elected by the Saeima (eight of nine) and local commission members by local councils, without a statutory party-balance rule.

§ 6 of the Central Election Commission Law has the CEC divide the State-allocated election funds among commissions, and § 24 of the Election Commissions Law requires commissions to report on fund use; election funding is State-allocated and CEC-administered, but not codified as a ring-fenced statutory line item insulated from executive reallocation.

“shall determine the division of the funds allocated by the State for other election commissions”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

The election authority is State-funded (§ 6 CEC), precluding foreign funding; § 35 of the Referendum Law additionally bans campaign funding obtained directly or indirectly from legal persons registered abroad and foreign citizens — a direct-plus-pass-through prohibition — though without a foreign-funding clause aimed specifically at the election authority.

“are directly or indirectly obtained from legal persons registered abroad and foreign citizens”

§ 22 of the Election Commissions Law lets commissions draw on State civil servants, and Latvia's permanent CEC apparatus is staffed under the general civil-service law; but the commissions that actually run the poll are temporary citizen bodies, not a protected career staff.

“the election commission may invite civil servants of the State civil service and other specialists from among the voters.”

§ 25 of the EP Election Law references training of polling-station commission members 'according to the procedures stipulated by the Central Election Commission', but only for the narrow assisted-voting role; general mandatory poll-worker training with defined content and frequency is not codified in the ingested election acts.

“trained according to the procedures stipulated by the Central Election Commission”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Latvia votes on paper with no voting machines or electronic systems; there is no voting-equipment certification process to codify.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: FTS surfaced result-revocation and repeat-voting provisions; Latvia uses no voting-technology vendor, so there is no certification to revoke.